Elena Volkova
Engineering Lead at Nord Pool AS
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolElena Volkova is an engineering lead with nine years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, cloud-native trading platforms for Europe’s largest power exchange. She leads teams of up to 10 engineers, combining hands-on architecture and coding (Java, Spring, Kafka, Kubernetes) with people management, recruitment, and cross-functional product prioritization. Elena has deep end-to-end expertise from requirements and architecture to production support, with a specialty in low-latency, high-throughput intraday trading systems. She drives migrations from on-prem to Azure, champions observability and reliability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights), and mentors junior engineers through code reviews and technical coaching. Known for translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions, she also engages directly with clients to ensure product-market fit.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Engineer-Programmer-Economist, Bachelor's degree, Engineer-Programmer-Economist at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian
Github Skills (2)
java4
masstransit2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NordPool/public-intraday-api-example
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
Elena-Volkova/Interview
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 days
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